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Abhishek Chandra

Mayo Clinic, Mayo Clinic Minnesota, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, University of Pennsylvania

ORCID iD 0000-0001-9423-9669
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Associate Professor of Physiology at the Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering with joint appointments at Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Geriatrics and Robert Arlene & Kogod Center on Aging, Mayo Clinic. Dr. Abhishek Chandra holds a masters in biochemistry from India, and a Ph.D. in Medical Sciences from Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Japan. Abhishek then completed a post-doc at Rutgers-UMDNJ in USA, and then a second post-doc at Penn Center for Musculoskeletal Disorder, University of Pennsylvania. He is member of ASBMR, ORS and BMAS, serves on editorial board of reputed journals such as Mechanism of Ageing and Development and Journal of Orthopedic Surgery and Research. The long-term research interest of my lab includes mechanisms of aging, pathophysiology of skeletal aging and mechanistic determination of acute and chronic bone loss, with expertise in cellular senescence, DNA damage and cell fate commitment of mesenchymal lineage cells into bone marrow adipocytes during pathological conditions. Clinical goals include, providing therapeutic options for prevention of fractures from radiotherapy-induced osteoporosis.

Employment

  • Mayo Clinic Associate Professor of Physiology
    2024 - Present
  • Mayo Clinic Minnesota Assistant Professor
    2016 - 2024
  • University of Pennsylvania Research Associate/Instructor
    2015 - 2016
  • University of Pennsylvania Postdoctoral Researcher
    2010 - 2016
  • Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Postdoctoral Appointee
    2008 - 2010

Education

  • Hamamatsu University School of Medicine Ph.D. Medical Sciences
    2004 - 2008
  • Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya M.Sc./ Biochemistry
    2001 - 2003

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